From: Arend van Spriel arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com
[ Upstream commit 57b962e627ec0ae53d4d16d7bd1033e27e67677a ]
In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory.
Fixes: 007f6c5e6eb4 ("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/wireless/reg.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index fd848609e656..a1e64d967bd3 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -1064,6 +1064,8 @@ MODULE_FIRMWARE("regulatory.db");
static int query_regdb_file(const char *alpha2) { + int err; + ASSERT_RTNL();
if (regdb) @@ -1073,9 +1075,13 @@ static int query_regdb_file(const char *alpha2) if (!alpha2) return -ENOMEM;
- return request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, "regulatory.db", - ®_pdev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, - (void *)alpha2, regdb_fw_cb); + err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, "regulatory.db", + ®_pdev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, + (void *)alpha2, regdb_fw_cb); + if (err) + kfree(alpha2); + + return err; }
int reg_reload_regdb(void)